1985 Bowling Green roster
38 players, as Bowling Green printed the roster in its 1985 media guide. The 1985 season.
From the 1985 media guide 38
The guideBowling Green’s roster as the school printed it in its 1985 media guide: 38 players, 1 of them linked to their pages here. Only lines the scan’s text gives cleanly are shown, so a few players may be missing.
| No. | Player | Class | Ht | Wt | Hometown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paul Silvi PK | Jr. | 5–9 | 158 | Bloomfield Hills, MI (Lahser) |
| 2 | Ray Southard DB | Fr. | 5–9 | 190 | Masury (Brookfield) |
| 3 | Fred Turner DB | Jr. | 5–9½ | 170 | Dayton (Chaminade-Julienne) |
| 3 | Ray Redd DB | Jr. | 5–9 | 183 | Dayton (Wayne) |
| 10 | Jeff Sandru QB | So. | 6–3¼ | 235 | Martins Ferry |
| 12 | Rick Neiman QB | 6–2½ | 191 | Euclid | |
| 19 | Eric Smith QB | So. | 6–3 | 191 | Alma, MI |
| 20 | Darryl Story TB | Jr. | 5–10½ | 164 | Dayton (Patterson) |
| 23 | Dean Rutan FL | Jr. | 186 | Urbana | |
| 24 | Ken Rankin WR | So. | 5–10½ | 150 | Columbus (Beechcroft) |
| 26 | Bernard White TB | Sr. | 5–9 | 202 | Pittsburgh, PA (Brashear) |
| 31 | Mike Otten FB | Jr. | 6–0 | 210 | Coldwater |
| 33 | Mark Polivka LB | Jr. | 6–3 | 229 | Parma |
| 35 | George Schmelzle FB | Sr. | 6–1 | 227 | Columbus (Bishop Watterson) |
| 40 | Ron Viscounte RB | 5–11 | 205 | Uniontown (Lake) | |
| 42 | Shawn Zimmerman LB | 6–3 | 225 | North Canton (Hoover) | |
| 43 | Paul Schweitzer LB | Jr. | 6–1½ | 206 | Phillipsburg (Northmont) |
| 44 | Vince Villanucci DT | Sr. | 6–2 | 227 | Lorain |
| 46 | Dennis Schiets WR | So. | 6–2 | 203 | Oak Harbor |
| 47 | Wayne Rositano FB | Jr. | 6–1 | 198 | Highland Hts. (Mayfield) |
| 52 | Chris Plescia OL | Jr. | 6–2½ | 234 | Circleville |
| 59 | Phil Walker DT | 6–1 | 243 | Otisville, MI (Flint Powers) | |
| 61 | Dan Schriner OG | Sr. | 6–2 | 268 | Tiffin (Calvert) |
| 62 | Mark Sparger OG | 6–5 | 235 | Detroit, MI (Redford) | |
| 65 | Ken Schriner OL | So. | 6–3 | 254 | Tiffin (Calvert) |
| 66 | Mike Murray NT | So. | 6–1½ | 220 | Berea |
| 67 | Ron Todd OG | 6–3 | 240 | Dayton (Belmont) | |
| 68 | Robert Rogers LB | So. | 5–11 | 210 | Northfield (Walsh Jesuit) |
| 70 | Bill Whan OT | 6–5 | 235 | Birmingham, MI (Seaholm) | |
| 75 | Greg Studrawa OG | Jr. | 6–3 | 254 | Fostoria ( St. Wendelin) |
| 76 | Eric Williams OT | Jr. | 6–4½ | 271 | Columbus (Briggs) |
| 77 | Mark Nelson OL | Jr. | 6–4 | 270 | Bloomington, MN (Jefferson) |
| 79 | Calvin Whitfield DL | 6–4 | 215 | Detroit, MI (Chadsey) | |
| 83 | Reggie Thornton WR | 5–11 | 170 | Detroit, MI (MacKenzie) | |
| 85 | Tony Parker DE | Jr. | 6–0½ | 190 | Akron (Garfield) |
| 89 | Andre Vaughn DB | 6–1 | 190 | Flint, MI (Southwestern) | |
| 90 | Norm Recla DT | Sr | 6–2 | 209 | Livonia, MI (Winston Churchill) |
| 93 | Wayne Wright LB | Fr. | 6–3 | 175 | Detroit, MI (LaSalle) |
The school’s media guide (1985), from Bowling Green State University library’s repository; read from the guide’s scan on the Internet Archive, page 31 of the scan. Heights, weights, classes and hometowns as printed; hometowns carry the high school as the guide gives it.